People who sustain a concussion and their families are often given conflicting advice regarding diagnosis and management. Only in the last decade or so brain injury specialists have begun to use ...

Public interest in concussion has exploded over the space of a generation, together with a new understanding of how best to help patients recover. Concussion patients were once prescribed rest in a ...

Myth #4: "All my athletes have completed their baseline tests, my concussion management program is complete.” False. A troubling, and common misconception is that baseline testing constitutes a ...

Public Health student researcher Stella Thornton has authored Nevada Senate Bill 80 (SB80) that adds safety measures and improved concussion protocol for student athletes. Thornton, a student ...

High school girls soccer is a growing concussion concern. Concussions do not discriminate, and recent studies show distinct gender differences may complicate sports concussion management care. While ...

Although football has become the sport most synonymous with traumatic brain injury, it is far from the only sport posing a concussion problem for young athletes. Research has showed that regular ...

Various organisations and experts have published numerous statements and recommendations regarding different aspects of sports-related concussion including definition, presentation, treatment, ...

Correspondence to Dr Douglas J Wiebe, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; dwiebe{at}upenn.edu Objective To examine the progression of ...